March 13, 1909 (Saturday)
- In college basketball, the University of Chicago beat the University of Minnesota 20–15 to close an unbeaten (12–0) season. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to arrange a three game championship series against Columbia University. Columbia had completed the 1908–09 season with a record of 16–1.
The Helms Athletic Foundation retroactively listed the Chicago Maroons as the national champion for the 1908–09 season.
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“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)